The Letter I Trivia

1. Iago is one of the best known characters created by William Shakespeare. In what Shakespeare work does he appear?

From Quiz Hello, Here Is the Letter "I"

Answer: Othello

"Othello" (c. 1603), "Julius Caesar", "Hamlet" and "King Lear" are some of the tragedies written by William Shakespeare (1564-1626). In these tragedies the author described the best and the worst in human beings. Iago, Othello, Desdemona and Cassio are the main characters of "Othello". Iago is a sub-officer who fights alongside Othello but does not forgive him when, instead of promoting him, Othello chooses to promote Lieutenant Cassio. Iago, pretending to be an honest and trustworthy person, in reality manipulated people and aimed to destroy Othello. The topics covered in "Othello" are common 'til today: jealousy, betrayal, love and racism.

From Quiz The "I"s Have It

Answer: Indonesia

Occupied by Japan for most of WWII, the Dutch East Indies declared independence on August 17, 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender. The Netherlands made attempts to reestablish their rule of the colony, but international pressure forced them to acknowledge the independence of most of what is now the Republic of Indonesia on December 27, 1949. The only remaining Dutch territory, West New Guinea, became part of Indonesia in 1962.

From Quiz 'I' Interrogation

Answer: Incisors

The word "incisors" has been derived from a Latin word which means "to cut". In humans, four types of incisors are present. They are named maxillary central incisors, maxillary lateral incisors, mandibular central incisors and mandibular lateral incisors. The incisors are modified into tusks in the case of elephants. They grow throughout the life stage of rodents as they are worn out at an equal speed due to gnawing.

From Quiz I Spy with my Little 'I'

Answer: India

India was part of the British Empire until 1947; independence was achieved at great cost involving much bloodshed when the country was partitioned into two countries broadly along religious lines, Hindu and Muslim. India and Pakistan were the result. Israel was created in 1948, and Indonesia declared its independence from the Netherlands in 1945. The Italy we know today is a result of the unification of many small states by Garibaldi in 1848.

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Answer: James Dickson Innes

James Dickson Innes was born in Llanelli, Wales. He studied at Carmarthen Art School and Slade School of Fine Art. His early work was Impressionist but he transitioned into Post-Impressionism. He died in 1914 in Swanley, Kent, of tuberculosis. A number of his works are on display at the Tate Gallery in London. Julius Caesar Ibbetson (yes, that was his real name) was born in 1759 in Churlwell Bank, Yorkshire, England. He was a watercolour artist, who also did etchings and some oils. He specialised in landscapes but also ventured into some maritime scenes, often of sailors carousing. His true specialty was forgery, and he was sometimes known as "the Berchem of England". He died in 1817, in Masham, England, having published a treatise on oil painting which showed his mastery of the subject. John William Inchbold was a Pre-Raphaelite painter who specialised in landscapes. He was born in Leeds, UK, in 1830 and studied (according to his obituary) at the Royal Academy Schools (although he is not apparently listed on their register). He also published a volume of poetry in 1877. He died in 1888 in Leeds. "Is it deep sleep, or is it rather death? Rest anyhow it is, and sweet is rest:-- No more the doubtful blessing of the breath..." (from Inchbold's "One Dead") William Hyde Irwin was born in San Francisco, California, in 1903. He studied at Stanford University, and pursued art studies at the CCAC, Académies Moderne and Colarossi in Paris, and at University of California Berkeley. He died in 1982 after a career which included teaching art at high school and university level.

From Quiz I Spy Something Beginning with I

Answer: The luminous appearance of the sky caused by light reflected from sea ice

The ice blink is a sailor's expression, and it refers to the luminous appearance of the sky caused by the reflection of light bouncing off the ice. If the sky appears dark blue, blackish or even dark brown, the sailor knows that there is open water ahead, so it's known as a water sky. However, if the sky is white, rosy pink or orange-coloured (an ice sky), it means that there's ice ahead. The Ice Blink is also the Danish name for the great ice cliffs of Greenland.

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Answer: Italy

An easy one to start with! Venice is in the northeast of Italy and famous for its canals. Florence is the capital of the region of Tuscany and also the province of Florence. Milan is considered by many to be the fashion capital of the world, and is the main city in Northern Italy.

From Quiz I Quiz You

Answer: Iatrophobia

You just wonder how you can be cured from this disorder when the one person to help you is the object of your fear. About the wrong answers: Iophobia is the fear of poison, Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish, and the fear of termites is called Isopterophobia.

From Quiz Incredible, Interesting "I"

Answer: I

I is the smallest word starting with I in the English language. I is a first person singular pronoun.

From Quiz Hello, Here Is the Letter "I"

Answer: Pakistan

On August 14th, 1967, twenty years after Pakistan became an independent country, Islamabad became the capital of the country. Shortly after independence, the capital was Karachi, an important city but without conditions to house the capital. A commission decided to build a city to be the capital. The chosen area is close to Rawalpindi, in the northern part of the country. The master plan was designed by the Greek architect Konstantinos Doxiades and the construction took place in the 1960s and early 1970s. Islamabad means "the city of Islam". In 2021, Islamabad is the only national capital city whose name starts with the letter "I". The capital of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby, of Palau is Ngerulmud and the capital of Peru is Lima.

From Quiz The "I"s Have It

Answer: Iggy Pop

The music of Iggy Pop has spanned the range from pop through hard rock to jazz and blues, but he is probably best known as "The Godfather of Punk". While at high school, he was the drummer for a band named The Iguanas and, consequently, his friends nicknamed him 'Iggy'. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of The Stooges.

From Quiz I Love Being Random

Answer: Iceland

Iceland is an island nation in the north Atlantic Ocean. It gained its independence from Denmark in 1918.

From Quiz I Spy with my Little 'I'

Answer: Miguel Indurain

The Spanish cyclist Miguel Indurain won the Tour de France five times between 1991 and 1995. Ignacio Zaragoza was a general in the Mexican Army in the 1860s. Isidro Garcia is a Mexican boxer, born in 1976. Raul Ibanez has played baseball for the Seattle Mariners, the Kansas City Royals, the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees.

From Quiz ABChain Gang - I

Answer: Inception

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, "Inception" (2010) is set in a futuristic world where corporate espionage takes place within dreams. In the film, Dom Cobb (DiCaprio), an extractor skilled at stealing information, is given the opportunity to return home to his children and escape false charges of murder if he can perform inception and imbed an idea in a person's mind through a dream, a task considered impossible. "Inception" captured four Academy Awards, including those for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects. ~darthrevan89

From Quiz I Spy Something Beginning with I

Answer: A type of mongoose

The ichneumon (Greek for 'the tracker') is a member of the mongoose family found in Egypt, and references to ichneumons (also called Pharaoh's rat) can be found in ancient Egyptian texts. Like other types of mongoose, the ichneumon eats snakes, and won't turn up its nose at crocodile eggs or vermin of various kinds. Theologians are much more likely to discuss hermeneutics, derived from the Greek hermeneuo, meaning to interpret, and generally understood to mean interpretation of scripture these days. Maybe ancient Egyptian theologians discussed ichneumons, since the ichneumon was venerated in the Egypt of the Pharaohs.

From Quiz Beginning with I...

Answer: Igor Karkaroff

Igor Karkaroff is a former Death Eater who spends much of the book worrying about the Dark Mark on his arm, that becomes clearer as Lord Voldemort regains strength.

From Quiz I Quiz You

Answer: Indurain

The men who have won 'La Grande Boucle' five times were (in this order): Jacques Anquetil (France), Eddy Merckx (Belgium) and Bernard Hinault (France). In 1995 Miguel Indurain (from Spain) was the first to have recorded five consecutive wins. This achievement was only equalled by Lance Armstrong in 2003.

From Quiz The "I"s Have It

Answer: Indiana

Other famous people from Indiana include Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, U.S. Vice-President under Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Marshall and U.S. Vice-President under G.H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, actresses Anne Baxter, Carole Lombard and Louise Dresser, "Cheers" star Shelley Long, singer Crystal Gayle, director Sydney Pollack, TV host David Letterman and, perhaps most famously of all, the entire Jackson family. Sports stars from the state include NBA legend Larry Bird, MLB player and manager Gil Hodges, NFL player, professional wrestler and actor Alex Karras and legendary NFL coach Hank Stram.

From Quiz 'I' Interrogation

Answer: Iapetus

Iapetus is the Titan of mortality. He gave birth to three more children along with his wife, Clymene (in other versions, Asia). They were Atlas (Titan of astronomy, holder of sky), Epimetheus (Titan of afterthought) and Menoetius (Titan of anger and irrational thinking). Iapetus, along with the other Titans, was defeated by the gods during the Titanomachy and cast into Tartarus.

From Quiz I Spy with my Little 'I'

Answer: Indium

Indium's symbol is 'In', and its atomic number is 49. Iridium's is 'Ir', atomic number 77. Iron is 'Fe', atomic number 26. Iodine is 'I', atomic number 53. The periodic table was compiled by the Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.

From Quiz ABChain Gang - I

Answer: Inferior Conjunction

An Inferior Conjunction occurs when Earth and an inferior planet or celestial object (such as comets and asteroids) line up on the same side of the sun. The asteroid or comet must have part of its orbit in between Earth and the Sun. When the same phenomenon happens with the inferior object on the other side of the sun, it is called a Superior Conjunction. ~naveen_213

From Quiz The "I"s have it...

Answer: Iron Butterfly

If you missed this one, you're either a Gen X'er or you fit the definition of the '60s - if you remember the '60s, you weren't really there... Iron Butterfly started out as a San Diego band in the heady early days of psychedelia, 1966. Don Ingle and Ron Bushy were the only two original members in the band by 1968, when their second album, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was released. The title track ran 17 minutes. Various sources differ on the mental and physical condition of the lead singer when it was written, as he was trying to sing "In the Garden of Eden, honey, don't you know that I'm lovin' you" (alt: "In the Garden of Venus...") The group has reconstituted itself several times and still tours. Of the four members who recorded this album, Ron Bushey (drums) and Lee Dorman (bass) are still active in it, Don Ingle occasionally tours with them but has not recorded with them, and Erik Brann (guitar) died in 2003 of a heart attack at age 52. If was a late-1960s British jazz/rock band. Members of the group were John Mealing (who then joined The Strawbs), Dennis Elliott (who went to Foreigner), Terry Smith and Dave Quincy (Zzebra), J.W. Hodkinson (Wolf), Jim Richardson (who went on to do session work) and Dick Morrissey (Average White Band). Incubus is a more modern group, having formed in 1991 while its members were still in high school. Their genre is funk/alternative/hard rock. Iron Maiden is one of the early heavy metal bands, formed in 1975 by Steve Harris, Dave Murray and others.

From Quiz I Spy Something Beginning with I

Answer: Lay person

In ancient Greece, an idiot was an uneducated person. Because the holders of public office (administrative, judicial, religious, etc.) required the person to be educated, the uneducated were unable to hold office of any kind, and were, therefore, lay people. Nowadays, it seems, any idiot can hold public office. And anyone who thinks too much of him or herself also classifies as an idiot, in my not so humble opinion.

From Quiz I Quiz You

Answer: Ivanhoe

Scott lived from 1771 to 1832. Besides Ivanhoe he has written poems like 'The Lay Of The Minstrel' (1805) and 'The Lady Of The Lake' (1810). Next to 'Ivanhoe' (1819) his most famous novel must be 'Rob Roy', which was published in 1817.

From Quiz Incredible, Interesting "I"

Answer: Indiana

Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana.

From Quiz The "I"s Have It

Answer: Iridium

In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of rainbows, one of the goddesses of the sea and sky, and is a messenger of the Gods. Traveling from one end of the world to the other at the speed of wind, Iris links the gods to humanity. Iridium, chemical symbol Ir, is a hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal. It is the second-densest element (after osmium) and is also the most corrosion-resistant metal.

From Quiz 'I' Interrogation

Answer: Iodine

The other elements belonging to the halogen group are fluorine, chlorine, bromine and astatine. They are univalent and highly electronegative. In general conditions, iodine appears as a bluish-black solid which produces violet vapours on sublimation. It usually forms a double covalent bond. A deficiency of iodine in the human body causes diseases like goitre and cretinism.

From Quiz I Love Being Random

Answer: Iceberg

An iceberg is a large piece of a glacier that fell off. About 1/9 to 1/10 of the iceberg can be seen above water.

From Quiz ABChain Gang - I

Answer: The personal variety of language unique to an individual

Idiolect is a similar word as dialect, as they have the same root suffix. A dialect is the type of accent someone talks with, but with the same language. For instance, in the United States, there is the southern dialect, New York dialect, and "New Joisey" dialect, among others. Idiolect, however, is a dialect unique to the individual. Nobody sounds exactly the same; we all have our own "idiolect". ~globalmyths

From Quiz The "I"s have it...

Answer: Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran is often in our newspapers and television news reports for its intransigence over it use of nuclear power. It is a theocratic republic - the elected rulers can be overruled by the mullahs - with 30 districts and its capital at Tehran. Most of its economy is based on oil and is controlled by the state. Economic reforms have faltered, and 40% of the population live below the poverty line. Infant mortality is high, with 38.12 deaths per 1,000 live births. The country is predominantly Muslim. Under 10% of the land is arable. The Republic of Indonesia is an archipelagio of 17,508 islands (6,000 of which are inhabited) between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Again a majority Muslim nation, it is not ruled as an Islamic state, although some extremist groups seek to bring Sharia law to the country. It is almost three times the size of Texas in land area, with a population of 234.7 million in July 2007, a median age of 26.9 years, a life expectancy of 70.16 years and a literacy rate of 87.9% of those over age 15. Its capital is Jakarta. The Republic of Iraq is a country undergoing major changes in 2007. It is a little more than twice the size of Idaho in land area, with a population of 27.5 million in July 2007, a median age of 20 years, a life expectancy of 69.3 years and a literacy rate of 40.4% of those over age 15. Its capital is Baghdad. Its economy is oil-based. The country was created at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and comprises traditional areas of the Kurds, the Sunni Muslims and the Shi'a Muslims. Tensions are high between the three groups, and the country's future was still up in the air as of May 2007. Italy is about the size of Arizona. It has a population of 58 million in July 2007, a median age of 42.5 years, a life expectancy of 80 years and a literacy rate of 98.6% of those over age 15. Its capital is Rome. As a member of the European Union, it is part of a vigorous economic bloc, but it still has internal challenges with corruption and high unemployment, especially in the south.

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